Liberal Think-tank Unirule Evicted From Beijing Offices
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
by zctph48 | Jul 12, 2018
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 14, 2017
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 16, 2016
Last month, senior staff at long-running liberal journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 29, 2016
Two weeks ago, the government-sponsored supervising organization of the long-running liberal...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 22, 2016
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 18, 2016
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 16, 2016
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 17, 2015
In April, liberal Beijing magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu’s chief editor Yang Jisheng was...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 13, 2014
Economist and politician Hu Deping may be best known as the son of Hu Yaobang, the party leader...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 28, 2014
The son of former party general secretary Hu Yaobang has taken over as publisher of liberal...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 23, 2014
As of September 23, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 2, 2013
The South China Morning Post reports that writer and veteran journalist Chen Min (pen name Xiao Shu) was detained on Friday amid a campaign for the release of detained lawyer and fellow New Citizens’ Movement activist Xu...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 4, 2013
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 5, 2013
Wang Yang, father of the “Happy” Guangdong Model and formerly mooted counterweight to Bo Xilai, was last month replaced as Guangdong Party chief by rising star Hu Chunhua. Having failed to win a seat on the reduced...
by Scott Greene | Jan 3, 2013
The South China Morning Post reports that the website of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, a liberal publication that published a pro-reform New Year greeting, was shut down on Friday morning: The magazine’s official account on Sina...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 10, 2010
From Reuters: A Chinese magazine has published a memoir praising purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, making a rare break with the official taboo about the leader ousted in the bloody and still-sensitive upheavals of 1989....
by Sophie Beach | Apr 4, 2010
Xujun Eberlain of Inside-Out China has translated an interview with Wu Si, editor of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, published in the New Weekly (新周刊): New Weekly: This is a question of historical view: what history is true? Wu Si:...
by Liu Yong | Dec 28, 2008
From the Washington Post: This fall, a scholarly magazine that focuses on Communist Party history pushed the envelope again. Editors, emboldened a few years ago after writing about a rarely mentioned former top official the...